On 09/05/2014 10:42 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 09/05/14 11:11, Fred Smith wrote:
> So, lessee here...
>
> you want to install some Linux into a VM on VirtualBox?? without having
> to "waste" a blank CD/DVD?
>
> easy to do...
>
> in VB, once you've created the VM but before you do the install, select
> the VM into which you wish to install, click "Settings", click
"Storage",
> under the "Storage tree" select whatever is shown as the contents of the
> "ide" controller (in my case it's "empty"), then under
"Attributes",
> click the little CD icon and browse to the ISO you want to install by
> clicking "choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file". Then click the OK button,
> and fire up your VM and do the installation. Bob's your uncle!:)
Ok, so now when I click on start:
Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is probably not loaded.
If you installed or VirtualBox package recently you need to restart the computer for the
driver to load.
I see this:
[bobg@box10 ~]$ locate vboxdrv
/etc/udev/rules.d/90-vboxdrv.rules
What am I doing wrong, this shouldn't be so complicated? Or is it?
Thanks,
Bob
How did you install VirtualBox (via kmod/akmod or from virtualbox.org)? Have you
recently updated your kernel? If you've done the
latter then you'll need to either reboot and let akmod rebuild a VirtualBox kmod or
you'll need to reinstall the VirtualBox app that
you downloaded from
virtualbox.org to get the vboxdrv rebuilt and loaded.
Kevin